Indrani Mukerjea being taken, with her face covered, for questiniong to the Khar Police Station in Mumbai on Saturday. (Press Trust of India)
Indrani Mukerjea has admitted that she "hated" her daughter Sheena Bora, and that they were locked in a financial dispute, but has not confessed to killing the 24-year-old, claims the Mumbai police. Ms Mukerjea's first husband, Siddharth Das's family are also set to be questioned by police in Assam's Silchar.
Here are the 10 latest developments in this story:
Ms Mukerjea, who co-founded a broadcasting group INX with husband Peter Mukerjea, was arrested six days ago for allegedly killing the young woman she had always introduced as her sister.
Ms Mukerjea, during interrogation, has allegedly blamed Ms Bora's murder in 2012 but discovered only last week, on her second husband Sanjeev Khanna, who has also been arrested.
But during questioning, Ms Mukerjea had accepted that there was a monetary dispute between her and Ms Bora, said police sources.
Ms Mukerjea and Mr Khanna argued during a joint questioning session yesterday, according to the police. Mr Khanna, who they claim has confessed to complicity in the crime, reportedly revealed that Ms Mukerjea hired him to help kill Ms Bora, and then delivered on her promise of financial assistance.
In an earlier confrontation orchestrated by the police, Ms Mukerjea allegedly lost her temper at son Mikhael Bora, who claims that he was her "next target". Ms Mukerjea has, according to the police, denied Mikhael Bora's accusations and said he was trying to extort money from her.
The police says a Mumbai psychiatrist had been approached by Ms Mukerjea to forge a certificate declaring her son mentally unstable. This she allegedly planned to use if Mikhael Bora persisted with attempts to find his sister after Ms Mukerjea declared Ms Bora had moved to the US and wanted no contact with him.The psychiatrist is likely to become approver in the case, sources told NDTV.
Rahul Mukerjea was engaged to Ms Bora when she disappeared. They were step siblings - Rahul is Peter Mukerjea's son from a previous marriage. The young couple faced articulated criticism of their relationship from their parents.
Ms Bora's passport was with Rahul Mukerjea when she was reported to have relocated to the US, having broken up with him via a text message after the last time he saw her alive. When asked by the police why he didn't find it bizarre that she had travelled abroad without her passport, Rahul Mukerjea says her mother claimed Ms Bora was using another passport.
Rahul Mukerjea tried at the time to register his fiance as a missing person with the police, but Ms Mukerjea told the police to ignore this because Rahul Mukerjea was stalking Ms Bora after a sudden break-up.
Peter Mukerjea was in London when Ms Bora died. A car with her body was allegedly parked overnight in his garage before it was set on fire in a forest on the outskirts of Mumbai the day after she was strangled in the hired car, which has been found.
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